Device for stiffening rugs.



PATENTED JULY 18, 1905.

P. E. KINDGEN. DEVICE FOR STIFFENING BUGS.

APPLICATION IFILED APR.4,1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented July 18, 1905.

PATENT- QFFICE...

DEVICE FOR STIFFENING HUGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 794,717, dated. July 18, 1905,

Application filed April 4, l903.- Serial No. 151,024.

To all whom, it may concern:

7 Be it known that I, FREDERICK EDWARD KINDGEN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Stiifening Rugs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in rugs; and its object is to either stiffen or weight a rug so that it will not turn up or curl along the edges or catch the foot of a passer-by, but will always lie straight and flat, as intended, while at the same time preserving the flexibility of the rug to permit it to be rolled or folded, as desired.

A further object is to provide the under side of a rug with rubber or other adhering material, so that it will more or less firmly adhere to a floor and prevent the rug from slipping or sliding, particularly on polished surfaces, the rubber being kept in adhesive contact with the floor by the weights.

In my Patent No. 717,213, dated December 30, 1902, I have illustrated and described as a new article of manufacture a rug having a strip of flexible material along its edges, transversely stitched to form separate .pockets, each pocket containing a weight and stitched across the end to retain the weights in the pockets. The details of construction and the object of my said invention are fully described in my said patent, and Ideem it unnecessary to further describe them here. By that invention 1 produced a rug which would lie flat and straight, and would not turn up or curl along its edges, but which nevertheless could be rolled or folded. In my present invention I have adopted as my preferred form of construction the construction described in my said patent, in combination with rubber or other adhering material, so that a rug made according to my present invention will possess the necessary stiffness or weight to keep it straight and prevent curling along the edges and have the quality of adhering to a floor to prevent slipping or sliding, the rubber being held in adhesive contact with the floor by the weight,the requisite flexibility of the rug being maintained to enable it to be rolled or folded.

l have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an inverted perspective view of my improved rug. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed bottom plan view, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view through one of the pockets in which the rubber blocks are contained.

The numeral 1 represents a rug, and 2 a double thickness of fabric, which is stitched transversely, as at 4:, to form pockets 3. A continuous row of pockets is thus provided, into each one of which is inserted a weight 5. One thickness of the material 2 is provided with perforations through which extend projections 7 from a rubber block 8, which is placed in each pocket below the weight 5. The projections or feet 7 extending from the block of rubber 8 come in contact with the floor and are held in contact by the weights 5 above them. After a weight and rubber block have been inserted in each pocket the pockets are stitched, as at 6, to close the same and prevent the weights and rubber blocks from falling out of the pockets. If these strips are fastened along the four edges of the .rug, as shown in Fig. 1, the flexibility of the rug is preserved and the same may be folded or rolled either longitudinally or transversely. It is to be understood that the purpose of my invention is to provide a rug which shall lie flat and straight, the edges of which being weighted to prevent turning up or curling at any point, while having sufiicient flexibility to permit the rug to be rolled or folded, and to present to a floor or object on which the rug is laid a series of adhering or frictional surfaces pressed down into adhering contact by the weights to prevent or at least retard the tendency of the rug to slip or slide.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a rug having a flexible strip secured to the under side thereof adjacent one or more of its edges, and State of New York, this 201 day of April, pockets formed in said strip, each pocket be- 1903.

ing formed With an opening, Weights in the pocketsand provided With rubber faces formed FREDERICK EDWARD KINDGEN' 5 to project through the openings in the pock- Witnesses:

ets, substantially as described. JAooB I. BERGEN,

' Signed by me at New York city, county EMMA W. FINLAYsoN. 

